LiveBackup XO-LiveCD

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This is a Live CD built from an OLPC ext3 OS image.

Project goals

  • give children, students, teachers and parents the opportunity to participate and use the educational software on a common PC
  • support demonstration of OLPC software to non-developers
  • for developers the CD provides an easy maintainable Live system, which could be used to develop and test activities on the Sugar desktop

Please give feedback via mailing list

http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/livebackup-xo-cd

Press Information

http://www.olpcnews.com/software/operating_system/sugar_on_classmate_pc.html

http://futurezone.orf.at/hardcore/stories/268610/ (german)

http://www.linux-user.de/ausgabe/2008/04/024/ (german)

Versions

Version 8.2

ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_081106.iso

This release is based on the ext3 image of the stable 8.2 branch, build 767 (release 8.2.0). The CD contains many activities, including all G1G1 activities.

Main features:

  • latest stable version of the Sugar desktop
  • large and customizable collection of activities
  • expandable language support, already included are German, French, and Spanish languages.

Read the release notes.

Release Version 2008-09-19

ftp://rohrmoser-engineering.de/pub/XO-LiveCD/

and mirrored at

The ISO images at the official repository are out of date and only have version 080607 of 2008-06-07:

A special edition (german) for Linuxtag 2008 in Berlin

http://www.skolelinux.de/XO-LiveCD/XO-LiveCD_Linuxtag2008.iso

Main features and changes since version 080321

  • Dual boot option for update.1 and joyride builds. You can try out the new SUGAR design by booting a recent OLPC joyride version.
  • Improved CD customization. Additional activities and RPM packages can be installed by putting them into CD top-level directories.
  • A new script to prepare USB boot devices out of the Live-ISO image.
  • Tested on a wide range of PC and laptop hardware and proved to work with all common virtual machines on Windows, MacOS and Linux.
  • Additional Xorg graphic drivers and improved X11 auto-configuration tools.
  • Bug fixes, updates and new activities.
  • Linux kernel 2.6.24.7, using the aufs-filesystem.

Main features and changes since version 080130:

  • the CD is based on OLPC development build 695
  • better hardware support, based on linux kernel 2.6.24.3
  • based on LiveBackup Version 1.4.3
  • initial ASUS EeePC support (alpha)
  • new bootsplash and improved boot-error handling
  • playing chess and simulation of electronic circuits now works with gcompris
  • bug fixes, updates and new extra activities

Main features and changes since the initial version 071206:

  • the CD is based on OLPC development build 689
  • during startup you can choose between English, Spanish, French or German language/keyboard settings.
  • the Live-CD has an automated installation of additional (beta) activities. Depending on available RAM size you will get some or all of:
BlockParty-7.xo, CartoonBuilder-RC-1.7.xo, FlipSticks-RC-1.4.xo, Implode-2.xo, JigsawPuzzle-1_20071030.xo, Jump-1.xo, Maze-3.xo, Simcity-4.xo, SliderPuzzle-3_20071030.xo, Speak-3.xo, StopWatchActivity-1.xo, StoryBuilder-11.xo, branches-stable-ImageQuiz.activity-ImageQuiz.xo, gcompris.activity.xo
  • the documentation has a new chapter about system installation on harddisk and configuration of a multiboot setup.
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